Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, July 18, 1993 TAG: 9307190205
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Short
OBIT WIRT, MINNIE EANES
WIRT, Minnie Eanes, 83, of Christiansburg, died Thursday, July 15, 1993, in
Montgomery Regional Hospital. Born in Pilot, Va. on Feb. 13, 1910, she was the
daughter of the late Jim & Lizzie Eanes. A member of the Cambria Baptist
Church, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Eugene Wirt.
Surviving are one daughter, Barbara Jean Barnes, Lanexa, Va.; five sons, Bobby
Eugene Wirt, Donald Lee Wirt, Allen Insley Wirt, all of Christiansburg, James
Lloyd Wirt and Henry Edward Wirt, both of Roanoke; two sisters, Ollie E.
Weeks, Roanoke, Eva E. Kelley, Knoxville, Tenn.; one brother, John Eanes, Sr.,
Christiansburg; a brother-in-law, Everette E. Wirt, Christiansburg; 13
grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Monday, July 19 from the Cambria Baptist
Church conducted by Dr. Maurice T. McCarthy Jr. and Rev. Robert E. Crawford
with burial in Roselawn Memorial Gardens. The family suggests that in lieu of
flowers, memorials be made to the Christiansburg Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 176,
Christiansburg, Va. Friends may call anytime Sunday at the Richardson-Horne
Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 Sunday
evening.
by CNB